Adam Lambert Evokes His Inner Freddie Mercury For An Incredible Performance Of Bohemian Rhapsody

Mar 31, 2020 by apost team

Queen and Adam Lambert rocked the Las Vegas crowd back in 2018 during their limited residency called "The Crown Jewels" in a ten-date engagement. Clearly no Queen show would be complete without "Bohemian Rhapsody," and frontman Adam Lambert did Freddie Mercury proud with his vocal stylings for the beloved song.

While you might remember him as American Idol’s season eight runner-up, Adam Lambert has made a name for himself as one of the country’s most successful vocalists. It’s no wonder then that the 38-year-old singer caught the legendary British rock band’s attention as early as in 2009, which began what has become a longtime, fruitful musical relationship.

“A musician friend of mine in America was like, ‘You’ve gotta check out this guy on Idol,” Queen drummer Roger Taylor told Rolling Stone in 2014. “So we Googled him. His voice was phenomenal. He had this sort of slight Elvis look going on. I just thought, ‘Wow, what a voice! Those octaves!'”

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Lambert’s impressive performances on the show were so good in fact that they got Taylor and Queen guitarist Brian May to fly out to Los Angeles to join the American Idol star for the show’s season finale, according to Rolling Stone. Nonetheless, Lambert ended up losing to Kris Allen despite back up from the rock and roll greats.

But luckily, that didn’t mean an end to Lambert and Queen’s musical collaboration. Since 2014, the American Idol singer and the band have been on the road together every year, according to Rolling Stone. Lambert’s new role as touring singer in the band comes after former vocalist Paul Roger’s departure back in 2009.

Fast forward to 2018 at the Park Theatre Las Vegas where Queen and Adam Lambert did a ten-show run of performances for their eager fans. Up until then, the new musical pairing had already rocked 150 shows according to their website, so it's no wonder that the performance is perfect to a tee. One audience member filmed the performance, the last in the run, and uploaded the video to Youtube.

Of course, there’s no replacing the late, great Freddie Mercury. But Lambert has shown that while he might not be Freddie Mercury, the American singer does justice to Mercury’s historic musical legacy — and for that, we can be grateful. But to really understand Lambert’s talent as a singer, make sure to turn up the volume and watch the entire 2018 Bohemian Rhapsody performance.

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